Members' Blogs: Landscape Chronicals - Part 2

Well, I jumped and so far it's not been too painful. I've been out tonight and am trying to learn to trust my own instincts if I don't do that then I'll never find my voice.

What was interesting was that I got my joy back again - I have dropped the 'baggage' of worrying whether or not I've got everything spot on and as I'm making photos for me, I'm not so concerned about negativity from others.

We learn from constructive criticism that's good and always welcome of course, which is different from negativity.

Negativity eats away at self confidence and you lose sight of why your doing what you do and can end up taking photos for others rather than for the joy of creating.

Any how enough waffling these are a few from this evening.

I've tried to keep the processing to the minimum.

Apparently, so I've read, one has to take 100,000 shots before they get to be any good - so I need to put in a lot more effort.